COMP SCI 3309 - Cybersecurity A Practical Application

North Terrace Campus - Winter - 2018

In this course, students will be involved in a simulation of real world security applications. Students will be required to learn and apply both offensive and defensive security techniques in conjunction with other Computer Science related skills in order to defend their own networks, whilst attacking others. This course focuses on tasks that cyber security specialists require to perform their roles, including identifying vulnerabilities, creating exploits, and creating mitigations. Students will be required to work in teams to complete this course.

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Course Details

Course Code	COMP SCI 3309
Course	Cybersecurity A Practical Application
Coordinating Unit	Computer Science
Term	Winter
Level	Undergraduate
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Contact	Up to 3 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	N
Prerequisites	COMP SCI 1103 or COMP SCI 2103
Assumed Knowledge	COMP SCI 2005
Assessment	Individual assignment work (70%), group project outcomes (30%)

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Matthew Hart

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.

Course Learning Outcomes

Students will learn offensive security techniques including:

The ability to identify vulnerabilities,
Craft exploits from those vulnerabilities, and
investigate and report on potential mitigations of vulnerabilities.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:

University Graduate Attribute	Course Learning Outcome(s)
Deep discipline knowledge informed and infused by cutting edge research, scaffolded throughout their program of studies acquired from personal interaction with research active educators, from year 1 accredited or validated against national or international standards (for relevant programs)	1,2,3
Critical thinking and problem solving steeped in research methods and rigor based on empirical evidence and the scientific approach to knowledge development demonstrated through appropriate and relevant assessment	1,2,3
Teamwork and communication skills developed from, with, and via the SGDE honed through assessment and practice throughout the program of studies encouraged and valued in all aspects of learning	1,2,3
Career and leadership readiness technology savvy professional and, where relevant, fully accredited forward thinking and well informed tested and validated by work based experiences	1,2,3

Learning Resources

Required Resources

Students will be provided with access to the challenge infrastructure and online resources as required.
Learning & Teaching Activities

Learning & Teaching Modes

This course is primarily done in teams with active practical work. Students are expected to work on the practical, and uncover as many vulnerabilities as possible.

Workload

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

As a guide, this course should be handled as a full time investment, and teams should expect to spend large amounts of time together detecting and exploiting vulnerabilities. A large component to this course is the final written report, and should be prioritised accordingly.

Learning Activities Summary

Students will be exposed to a wide range of vulnerabilities, and expected to investigate each vulnerability in depth – including details such as summaries, working exploits, and overall impact

The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:

Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
Assessment must maintain academic standards.

Assessment Summary

• 5% participation
• 15% for completing over 70% of the challenges (including at least one Hard and one Diabolical challenge) (outcomes 1,2,3)
• 20% executive summary report. (outcomes 1,2,3)
• 60% individual final written report. (outcomes 1,2,3).

Assessment Related Requirements

No course-specific requirements.

Assessment Detail

Participation - Students will be required to work in teams to complete challenges, attend lectures, and fully engage with the course.

Challenge completion – Teams will be required to complete at least 70% of the overall challenges, including at least one Hard and one diabolical challenge.

Executive Summary – Teams will be required to develop and submit an executive summary of their findings as a team.

Individual Written Report – Each student will be required to individually write up each of their findings, and submit a detailed written report.

Submission

All work will be submitted through the School of Computer Science’s electronic submission forums, including Canvas (myUni) and the School’s web submission gateway. All programs are to be submitted in the programming language specified, and text reports are to be submitted as PDF files.

Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

Final results for this course will be made available through Access Adelaide.

Student Feedback

The University places a high priority on approaches to learning and teaching that enhance the student experience. Feedback is sought from students in a variety of ways including on-going engagement with staff, the use of online discussion boards and the use of Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) surveys as well as GOS surveys and Program reviews.

SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the University to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.
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